String-Skipped Guitar Arpeggios Licks

Video Transcript

"All right, here is a string skipped arpeggio lick that owes a tip of the cap to guitarist, Paul Gilbert, from Racer X and Mr. Big. This uses two different arpeggios, two major arpeggios. It's in the key of C, so first I'm going to do a C major arpeggio, and then a G major arpeggio. I'm going to do this lick twice in a row at regular speed and then I'll show you what I'm doing, two, three, four. That might seem like a lot but it's actually just two major arpeggios, a C major arpeggio and a G major arpeggio, both in a row. So, let's look at the C major arpeggio. What we've got is string skipping, so I start with a pull off on the high E string from twelve to eight. And then, I'm going to skip over the B string and catch the twelfth of the G. And then, what I do is skip back over the B string and go back to the eighth fret of the high E string. Come back over the B string again, and on the G string we've got twelve and nine, and then the tenth on the D. Back to the ninth on the G. Then, hammer on the twelfth of the G up to the eighth on the high E again. Come down to the G again; pull off from the twelfth to the ninth. And from this note you've got to jump all the way to the twelfth on the high E string. Pull it to the eighth again. Reach over the B string; get the twelfth on the G. And then finally, the eighth fret on the high E string. So, we're using one, two, three, four, five notes total. It's just getting the pattern sequenced the proper way, that's it. After you do that once take the entire pattern and skip one string towards your head, and do it starting on the B string. You'll skip over the G now. Skip the G, skip the G. So, that whole section is... Then, you go back and do the pattern that we originally did on the high E string, the C major arpeggio to the G major arpeggio one more time. And I'm, at the end when you get to the eighth fret of the B string, instead of starting again I reach with my pinkie to the thirteenth of the B string and get the C note, and that's how I end it. Okay, take your time. Do it slowly. Do pull offs and hammer ons as much as you can to make it sound smooth, and really watch the sloppiness when you're skipping over those strings. Let me play it for you twice in a row, slowly, with our backing track and you can hear what it sounds like, three, four."